In FEDERAL STATE-FINANCED INSTITUTION "NITSEM NAMED AFTER N. F. GAMALEI" MINISTRY OF HEALTH OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION declared that it is not necessary to be afraid of the ancient viruses found in permafrost

The head of department of scientific research institute of epidemiology and microbiology of N. F. Gamalei Alexander Mikhaylovich Butenko in conversation with radio station "Govorit Moskva" commented on a find which the international group of scientists from Russian Federation made, Germany and France. Researchers found out that ancient viruses which were in the Siberian permafrost of one thousand years, are still capable to infect modern amoebas of Acanthamoeba. By words Alexander Mikhaylovich Butenko, it is not necessary to be afraid of such opening. Modern scientists know about a big variety of ancient viruses, he noted. "It cannot be reflected" in any way — the epidemiologist told. On it...